Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2024
Networking Giant Dubs Campaign Against Government Customers 'Arcane Door' Probable nation-state hackers targeted Cisco firewall appliances in a campaign dating to late 2023, the networking giant disclosed Wednesday while releasing three patches, two of them rated critical. Cisco doesn't connect the hackers with a specific country. It dubs the campaign "Arcane Door.
Security Affairs
APRIL 24, 2024
Nation-state actor UAT4356 has been exploiting two zero-days in ASA and FTD firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks. Cisco Talos warned that the nation-state actor UAT4356 (aka STORM-1849) has been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks worldwide.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2024
Medical device makers submitting products for premarket approval by the Food and Drug Administration often struggle the most with cybersecurity in three major areas - design controls, providing a software bill of materials and testing, according to Nastassia Tamari of the FDA.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 24, 2024
Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2024
Hanna Kim to Take Over Login.gov at a Pivotal Moment for Federal Sign-On Service Login.gov, the federal government's single sign-on service, told staffers Wednesday that there would be a change in its top leadership starting next month as the organization ramps up plans to begin testing facial recognition technologies and new pricing models.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2024
After Quintupling Revenue Over the Past 18 Months, ThreatLocker Wants to Go Public ThreatLocker completed a $115 million Series D funding round to further its zero trust cybersecurity ambitions. The Orlando-based company plans to use the funding to expand the number of applications it supports and prepare for a potential initial public offering.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 24, 2024
Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade, and I think I finally made a breakthrough with this article.” His mini-abstract: In this Article I argue that most of the time, privacy consent is fictitious. Instead of futile efforts to try to turn privacy consent from fiction to fact, the better approach is to lean into the fictions.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2024
How ChatGPT Can Help You Write Your Job Application Documents Artificial intelligence offers innovative tools to refine your job application materials. This guide provides practical steps on how to use one common tool, ChatGPT, to enhance your resume and cover letter, ensuring they capture the attention of potential employers.
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 24, 2024
Large language models (LLMs) may be the biggest technological breakthrough of the decade. They are also vulnerable to prompt injections , a significant security flaw with no apparent fix. As generative AI applications become increasingly ingrained in enterprise IT environments, organizations must find ways to combat this pernicious cyberattack. While researchers have not yet found a way to completely prevent prompt injections, there are ways of mitigating the risk.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2024
BioCatch Survey Report Focuses on New AI-Based Risks and Fraud-Fighting Solutions Banks are concerned about advancements in voice-cloning technology and the threat it poses to authentication. The failure of identity-centric solutions to combat synthetic identity fraud has convinced 91% of U.S. banks to reconsider their use of voice verification for major customers.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 24, 2024
More cities are cutting ties with ShotSpotter, the company whose microphones purport to detect gunshots. But new information shows that ShotSpotter is still sending data to local police in at least three cities, despite their contracts being canceled.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2024
KnowBe4's First Deal Since 2021 Brings AI-Based Email Protection, Training Together KnowBe4 purchased an email security provider founded by a Check Point veteran to offer AI-based email protection and training that's automatically tailored relative to risk. Acquiring Egress will help organizations prevent, protect and defend against sophisticated email cybersecurity threats.
Security Affairs
APRIL 24, 2024
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their role in cyberattacks against the U.S. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on four Iranian nationals for their involvement in cyberattacks against the U.S. government, defense contractors, and private companies.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2024
Company to Focus on AI Solutions, Large Enterprise Growth After Series B Extension After closing a $50 million Series B extension led by Felicis and Accel, workflow platform provider Tines sets its sights on expanding its use beyond the security operations center and deepening its engagement with large enterprises by addressing industrywide challenges around AI implementation.
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 24, 2024
An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. A school asks parents to verify their identities before giving out student information. These are just some examples of how organizations support data privacy , the principle that people should have control of their personal data, including who can see it, who can collect it, and how it can be used.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2024
Regulation and Inclusive Training Data Can Help Reduce Bias, Experts Say Just because a machine says it, doesn't mean it's unbiased. In fact, you don't have to probe far to find underlying biases and prejudices in text composed by generative artificial intelligence. "If you look at historical text, they feature a lot of men in leadership roles," a UNESCO official said.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 24, 2024
Stronger Together: Join Thales & Imperva at RSA Conference 2024 Where the World Talks Security madhav Thu, 04/25/2024 - 05:17 In today’s increasingly connected and digital world, the cybersecurity industry stands as a bastion against a relentless tide of threats. Businesses in every sector are trying to digitally transform their operations using the cloud but are finding themselves in an increasingly tangled web of challenges.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
IT Governance
APRIL 24, 2024
Previously , I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sophie Sayer, our Channel Sales Director, to talk about the IT Governance partner programme and partner event on 9 April 2024. Now that the drinks have been served and awards handed out, I caught up with her again. When I asked her how the event went, she said: The Channel Partner Event and Awards 2024 in Ely was an absolute triumph!
IG Guru
APRIL 24, 2024
Check out the article here. The post Microsoft’s VASA-1 AI Unleashes the Future of Deepfakes with Single Image Transformation via Microsoft first appeared on IG GURU.
Unwritten Record
APRIL 24, 2024
The records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Irrigation Division held by the Cartographic Branch are fully digitized and available to view and download from the National Archives Catalog. The records of the BIA Irrigation Division consist of maps showing Indian reservations and irrigation projects and plans for the construction of irrigation facilities and structures.
The Schedule
APRIL 24, 2024
With over 260 participants, and led by the fabulous and insightful Trevor Owens and Chris Prom, this year’s SAA RMS Records Management Month Colloquium was a success! Thanks so much to everyone involved. You can access Trevor’s and Chris’s slides here.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Docuware
APRIL 24, 2024
Let’s say there were guidelines you could put in place that would protect your company from noncompliance fines, reduce storage costs and help avoid legal action and cyberthreats. Wouldn’t you want to establish them right away? It would be even better if these policies could be enforced automatically and without administrative effort. That’s where the creation of document retention policies comes in.
The Schedule
APRIL 24, 2024
Save the date for our annual section meeting in July! On July 12, 2-3:30 p.m., four presenters will share a sneak peek into their 2024 NAGARA presentation titled “Records Management Resurgence: Using Outreach, Education, and Cross-departmental Partnerships to Revive or Jumpstart a Records Program.” In this panel discussion, records management professionals from four different types of institutions will share methods they’ve used to bolster support and appreciation for the work RIM professionals
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